Jeongmin Kang (A0)

Jeongmin does not remember much of his early childhood, which has been attributed to the trauma of losing his parents in a car accident. All that is known of Jeongmin's parents were that at least one of them was ethnically Chinese, thereby making Jeongmin a hwagyo. Jeongmin spent most of his early childhood in an orphange before he eventually met Jo-Ryeo Lee, a late middle aged teacher who had started to volunteer at the orphange. After some time, late middle aged woman decided to adopt Jeongmin as her son when he was twelve years old.

Jo-Ryeo was also ethnically Chinese, spoke primarily Chinese, and encouraged Jeongmin to as well. Jo-Ryeo nurtured Jeongmin's sense of his Chinese heritage as her household was more culturally Chinese than Korean. Despite growing up in Korea, Jeongmin identifies more strongly with his ethnically Chinese half due to his upbringing under Jo-Ryeo. He is devoted to his mother Jo-Ryeo, who never married or had children of her own. Despite her career as a teacher, Jo-Ryeo was well off due to an ample inheritance, and she and Jeongmin lived comfortably with even a few extravagances from time to time.

One of Jeongmin's only memories (albeit fragmented still) from his childhood are of a pair of police officers who helped him after the car accident. These officers, whose names Jeongmin cannot remember, inspired Jeongmin to pursue a career in the police force. In his teenage years, Jeongmin was addicted to reading crime novels, and decided that he wanted to become a detective.

Jeongmin set his sights on getting into the highly selective National Police Academy, whose competitiveness is comparable to top universities in Korea. Jeongmin was an excellent student in school, and under Jo-Ryeo's request, had skipped several grades in the academy she enrolled him in. Through hard work and dedication, he was able to pass the competitive entrance exam to the National Police Academy.

Upon graduation, he was appointed as a Level 6 Officer (as is standard) and gained the rank of Inspector. Having distinguished himself in this field of study, Jeongmin was assigned into the Bureau of Criminal Investigations as a detective. He served in the Seoul Metropolitain Police Agency for two years in various investigation teams. Jeongmin distinguished himself well due to his relentless and meticulous pursuit of case closure, and was well on his way to another formal promotion when he was recruited into the Alliance by Taejun Baek after a chance encounter.

Taejun Baek, the Corren League Leader, recruited Jeongmin into the Alliance after a personal trip he took to Seoul to find his errant familiar, the haetae. In his talk with the haetae, Taejun found that the haetae had a special interest in the young detective. This surprised Taejun, who was well aware of the haetae's pickiness, and he reached out to Jeongmin to recruit him into the Alliance to keep a closer eye on him.

Jeongmin was initially a little hestitant. Like many others in law enforcement, he was quite wary of the unregulated globally scoped Alliance 0, an organsation that had only emerged relatively recently and disclosed to the world the nature of its operations. However, he was taken in by Taejun's explanation that within the Alliance, he would have opportunity to work on cases on a global scale without the interference of beauracy.

Taejun personally oversaw Jeongmin's orientation into the Alliance, and assessed his capabilites to sort him into a Division. In the combat assessment, Taejun found that Jeongmin was a capable martial artist, but Jeongmin was disconcerted by Taejun's demonstration of aura. Jeongmin declined to train aura manipulation and was subsequently placed into Dispatch due to his specialisation in investigations. Though Taejun did not expect Jeongmin to develop martially to a high standard without it, stubborn Jeongmin constantly petitioned him to allow him to work the hardest (but most dangerous) cases.

Taejun eventually got Jeongmin to agree to a compromise: if he wanted to work the high profile cases, he needed to improve his combat abilities. Most recently, Taejun assigned him to train qi manipulation under the Taoist exorcist Zhongyu Shi.

It is rare for Taejun to personally recruit someone for the Alliance, so Jeongmin's recruitment naturally sparked a great deal of interest in curiosity in his peers. Jeongmin feels the pressure to live up to standards, and he dislikes when people comment on him being recruited by Taejun.

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Culebron Case [Barcelona] - Jeongmin was assigned to assist Deiji Kim's investigation to determine the thief Culebron's identity. Deiji's investigation had already picked up on Barcelona being the most likely base of operations for the Culebron. The two travelled to Barcelona to gather information from the Barcelona-based criminal broker Dario. They disguised themselves as the Mist Dragon and an associate, and convinced Dario that they were looking for an associate for a difficult upcoming operation. Dario confirmed that the Culebron was in fact based in Barcelona, and Deiji gave him a card with a tracker implanted to give to the Culebron. A few days later, Dario gave the card to the Culebron in a meeting. Though the Culebron discarded the card no long after, Deiji and Jeongmin were able to pull CCTV imagery from the surroundings to identify a few suspects matching the Culebron's general description. After a few days of surveillance, the pair tracked one of their suspects making her way to Dario's broker den, and identified Lucia Aguilar, a local dance instructor with a minor criminal record, as the most likely identity of the Culebron.

Steven Nevets Case [Interview] - A fellow Dispatch agent asked Jeongmin to take a crack at recently apprehended POI Steven Nevets, who had been refusing to give an interview. Though initially Jeongmin was also unsuccessful speaking with him, it was a late night, and unbeknownst to Jeongmin, a full moon night. Steven transformed into a werewolf and attacked Jeongmin, injuring him. He might have killed Jeongmin if not for the interference of agent KOGARASHI, who blasted through the panic lock and subdued Steven with a high voltage beam and silver cordage. When Steven regained consciousness, he revealed that his real name was Vincent Lockier of the infamous but reclusive Lockier pack.

After this event, Vincent refused to speak with any other Alliance agent other than Jeongmin, but to Jeongmin, he answered any question willingly. Vincent's interview lead to the discovery of many leads in the Black Market, many of which becamse particular high interest cases for the Alliance due to the supernaturals involved.

Daseot Case [Hangzhou] - Jiyoo Myung, formerly incarcerated, was given the opportunity to aid the Alliance on a mission to apprehend the Mist Dragon. Jiyoo, Jeongmin Kang, and Jaehyun Baek were sent to Hangzhou to stake out an event showcasing an artifact believed to be the legendary Zhang Zhiya's sword. Though Jiyoo was only supposed to have supportive role during the mission, ultimately he was instrumental in stopping the Mist Dragon's escape after she initially overpowered Jaehyun and Jeongmin.

Madre AraÑa [Mexico City] - After Minxiu Fei revealed her adoptive mother was an immortal, the Alliance deemed it important to investigate and find her. Espionage specialist Vivienne Russell and investigations specialist Jeongmin Kang were paired up to search Mexico City for any leads to her or her gang's, Los Guardianes del Sur, whereabouts. The agents were fortunate enough to stumble across a lead into a major Black Market event being hosted by a foreign interest, the Asia based HY Group.

Posing as ambassadors from the HY Group, Vivienne and Jeongmin were able to approach another prominent gang in Mexico City, the Rivera gang, to ask information about the Guardianes. The perceptive agents noticed their meeting being eavesdropped upon, and surmised it was a spy from the Guardianes. They were able to feed the information about the Black Market event to the spy, who did end up being from the Guardianes. In doing so, they were able to lure out the Guardianes and set up the Alliance for a double bust to both stop the Black Market event and also detain major Mexicon POIs such as the Madre Araña.